Thanks to a heroic performance from the oldest player at the tournament, Egypt squeaked through to the final of the African Nations Cup in midweek, courtesy of a shootout victory over Burkina Faso in ...

Giselle Rodríguez is the author of "Danza Oriental en Egipto", a Spanish-language book that traces the origins of oriental dance all the way back to the Pharaonic Egypt until today.

Traditional belly dancing arose in Egypt in the early 20th century with the rise of evening cabarets and has been declining a century later owing to the lack of suitable public venues It is a late ...

When I turned 17, I wanted just one thing for my birthday: belly-dancing classes. The dance's beauty, grace and creative costumes, along with its strong connection to Arabic music, made it a natural ...

CAIRO -- Egypt's foreign belly dancers have been given their marching orders. The government says it wants to protect homegrown practitioners of the seductive Middle Eastern dance form and is no ...

Eman Zaki is often called the Coco Chanel of belly dance. If you need a tiger-print mesh ensemble with a diamante halter top encrusted with fake pearls, she can make it. Same goes for a gold and ...

Egyptian belly-dancers Amie Sultan (C), Safaa Said (L), and Menna Emmam (C), full-time instructors at the Taksim Belly-dance Institute, take part in a rehearsal in Cairo. (Image credit: AFP) As belly ...

CAIRO — At a Cairo wedding hall, Russian belly dancer Anastasia Biserova shimmied to the dance floor in a bright, high-slit skirt and an elaborately sequined bra top. She swirled her diaphanous pink ...

The official Facebook page of Egyptian belly dancer Sama El-Masry’s has denied that she had intended to run in Egypt’s upcoming presidential poll, following rumors spread on social media for the past ...

An Egyptian court has sentenced a popular belly dancer to six months in prison on Monday for “insulting the Egyptian flag”. Sofinar Gourian, better known as Safinaz, wore a dancing costume with the ...

She is likely to remain in jail for at least two more weeks. A belly dancer was detained in Egypt for "using seductive techniques" in her dance videos posted to Instagram. Sohila Tarek Hassan Haggag, ...

An Italian belly dancer has been arrested and jailed in Egypt for outraging public decency with her saucy performances. Linda Martino, 32, was held after videos of her scantily clad shows were spotted ...